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Recorded reading and creator payments from 2026-06-15 to 2026-10-02. Original testnet evidence is retained alongside current mainnet activity.

Recorded questions
3,280
Settled creator payments
11,314
Settled to creator wallets
56.748064 test USDC
Creator wallets paid
23

Testnet USDC, separate from mainnet. Includes owner-operated activity; these totals do not establish independent customers or event-period growth.

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Ranked by settled access and citation payments to each original source and wallet. Historical listings do not establish current publisher control.

  1. 1

    Stablecoin Ledger

    0x32ef…0933 ↗ · 1,184 cites · 1,262 payments

    9.445228 test USDC
  2. 2

    Agent Economy Weekly

    0x3cd0…65e3 ↗ · 1,079 cites · 1,167 payments

    8.868264 test USDC
  3. 3

    Onchain Micropayments Digest

    0xd6a2…9ff8 ↗ · 1,050 cites · 1,050 payments

    5.382926 test USDC
  4. 4

    Arc Settlement Benchmarks

    0x9aea…331d ↗ · 756 cites · 950 payments

    5.038727 test USDC
  5. 5

    Onchain Micropayments Digest

    0x13c8…6322 ↗ · 1,050 cites · 1,050 payments

    3.588614 test USDC
  6. 6

    Distributed Systems Notes

    0x3d52…7ebe ↗ · 302 cites · 476 payments

    2.646853 test USDC
  7. 7

    Cointelegraph.com News

    0xbfee…8689 ↗ · 153 cites · 641 payments

    2.010595 test USDC
  8. 8

    Web Payments Review

    0x96db…fd52 ↗ · 501 cites · 612 payments

    1.998823 test USDC
  9. 9

    CoinDesk: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Crypto News and Price Data

    0x04a8…66cc ↗ · 166 cites · 575 payments

    1.807349 test USDC
  10. 10

    Latent.Space

    0x3af1…a911 ↗ · 135 cites · 323 payments

    1.679483 test USDC
  11. 11

    Ethereum Foundation Blog

    0x1337…107e ↗ · 171 cites · 474 payments

    1.551999 test USDC
  12. 12

    Stripe Blog

    0xde6f…2d98 ↗ · 178 cites · 396 payments

    1.551869 test USDC
  13. 13

    Decrypt

    0x3e3e…b32d ↗ · 124 cites · 487 payments

    1.543466 test USDC
  14. 14

    The Coinbase Blog - Medium

    0xafac…a9e7 ↗ · 136 cites · 322 payments

    1.465917 test USDC
  15. 15

    Garden & Soil Monthly

    0x544b…3e8c ↗ · 101 cites · 206 payments

    1.356102 test USDC
  16. 16

    Hugging Face - Blog

    0x8fdd…109a ↗ · 84 cites · 271 payments

    0.999267 test USDC
  17. 17

    Vitalik Buterin's website

    0x8459…0c35 ↗ · 75 cites · 276 payments

    0.995074 test USDC
  18. 18

    Conzit Labs

    0x72cf…c157 ↗ · 52 cites · 124 payments

    0.987484 test USDC
  19. 19

    Keryx Engineering (first-party)

    0x6644…fda2 ↗ · 58 cites · 74 payments

    0.9265 test USDC
  20. 20

    Simon Willison's Weblog

    0x8458…3f67 ↗ · 54 cites · 290 payments

    0.858165 test USDC
  21. 21

    Retro Game Hardware

    0x40dd…9b63 ↗ · 52 cites · 94 payments

    0.776692 test USDC
  22. 22

    Onchain Micropayments Digest

    0xbfdd…90c8 ↗ · 0 cites · 155 payments

    0.775 test USDC
  23. 23

    Inner Axiom — The Codex

    0xdad4…cd73 ↗ · 25 cites · 39 payments

    0.493667 test USDC
Inspect archived totals and channels
settled payment records
11,950 · 84.638064 test USDC
pending payment records
1 · 0.002 test USDC
failed payment records
0 · 0 test USDC
simulated payment records
0 · 0 test USDC
Service receipts (separate from creator payments)
636
citation records · settled amount
7,486 · 46.618064 test USDC
fetch records · settled amount
3,829 · 10.13 test USDC
inbound records · settled amount
636 · 27.89 test USDC
a2a questions
251
engine questions
2,752
mcp questions
92
web questions
185

Snapshot captured 2026-10-03T00:26:18.665Z. Settlement states are frozen at capture time. Wallets and channels are recorded identities, not independent people.

Every recorded public question is available here, including runs with no citations or no payment. Open its original dispatch link to read the answer and full trace.

  1. What is a useful comparison for understanding stablecoin settlement versus card and ACH delays, based on available evidence?

    · 1 cited · Arc testnet

  2. What concrete detail in Stablecoin Ledger helps explain USDC as a unit of account for agent commerce?

    · 1 cited · Arc testnet

  3. I need to brief a teammate on volatile-token risk for agent spending caps. What are the two or three facts I should lead with?

    · 0 cited · Arc testnet

  4. If I were building a paid research agent, how would stablecoin-denominated agent budgets affect a design decision?

    · 0 cited · Arc testnet

  5. What does Stablecoin Ledger establish about final settlement before paid API access, and what remains uncertain?

    · 0 cited · Arc testnet

  6. What would I need to verify before relying on a claim about USDC peer-to-peer final settlement?

    · 0 cited · Arc testnet

  7. Can you give a concrete example of blockchains for tiny automated payments using published source material?

    · 2 cited · Arc testnet

  8. Which specific claim does Vitalik Buterin's website make about cost and finality tradeoffs on Ethereum layer 2 networks, and what supports that claim?

    · 0 cited · Arc testnet

  9. How does open models for tool-using AI agents work in practice, and which published material supports the explanation?

    · 0 cited · Arc testnet

  10. I am reading about evaluating factual grounding in language-model answers. What is the main point, and what does Hugging Face - Blog say about it?

    · 0 cited · Arc testnet

  11. After reading Simon Willison's Weblog on citing sources in LLM answers built from web search, what follow-up question would help test the claim?

    · 0 cited · Arc testnet

  12. What is easy to misunderstand about prompt injection risks in tool results, and what does the evidence actually show?

    · 0 cited · Arc testnet

  13. What is a useful comparison for understanding infrastructure for multi-step agent tool use, based on available evidence?

    · 0 cited · Arc testnet

  14. What concrete detail in Latent.Space helps explain deciding when an AI agent should call a tool?

    · 0 cited · Arc testnet

  15. I need to brief a teammate on AI agents using tools to gather information. What are the two or three facts I should lead with?

    · 2 cited · Arc testnet

  16. If I were building a paid research agent, how would transaction finality for automated software buyers affect a design decision?

    · 0 cited · Arc testnet

  17. What does Ethereum Foundation Blog establish about Ethereum settlement versus application-level authorization, and what remains uncertain?

    · 0 cited · Arc testnet

  18. What would I need to verify before relying on a claim about metered API access for online businesses?

    · 0 cited · Arc testnet

  19. Can you give a concrete example of developer payment APIs for online services using published source material?

    · 1 cited · Arc testnet

  20. Which specific claim does Keryx Engineering (first-party) make about evidence preserved with a Keryx research receipt, and what supports that claim?

    · 0 cited · Arc testnet

  21. How does payment evidence when research delivery fails work in practice, and which published material supports the explanation?

    · 1 cited · Arc testnet

  22. I am reading about resuming a Keryx job without signing a second payment. What is the main point, and what does Keryx Engineering (first-party) say about it?

    · 1 cited · Arc testnet

  23. After reading Keryx Engineering (first-party) on journaling a Keryx paid job before submission, what follow-up question would help test the claim?

    · 1 cited · Arc testnet

  24. What is easy to misunderstand about Keryx contribution weights for creator payouts, and what does the evidence actually show?

    · 1 cited · Arc testnet

  25. What is a useful comparison for understanding Keryx access tolls versus citation rewards, based on available evidence?

    · 1 cited · Arc testnet

  26. What concrete detail in Keryx Engineering (first-party) helps explain why a source marker alone cannot support a claim?

    · 0 cited · Arc testnet

  27. I need to brief a teammate on Keryx evidence checks before citation rewards. What are the two or three facts I should lead with?

    · 1 cited · Arc testnet

  28. If I were building a paid research agent, how would conflicting published estimates of x402 settlement time affect a design decision?

    · 2 cited · Arc testnet

  29. What does Web Payments Review establish about the assumption that every x402 payment needs its own transaction, and what remains uncertain?

    · 2 cited · Arc testnet

  30. What would I need to verify before relying on a claim about Arc settlement timing versus Ethereum L1 block timing?

    · 0 cited · Arc testnet

  31. Can you give a concrete example of Arc finality for small payment confirmation using published source material?

    · 1 cited · Arc testnet

  32. Which specific claim does Arc Settlement Benchmarks make about median and p95 Arc settlement measurements, and what supports that claim?

    · 1 cited · Arc testnet

  33. I am reading about x402 batched-settlement latency on Arc testnet. What is the main point, and what does Arc Settlement Benchmarks say about it?

    · 1 cited · Arc testnet

  34. After reading Distributed Systems Notes on payment recovery after a lost HTTP response, what follow-up question would help test the claim?

    · 1 cited · Arc testnet

  35. What is easy to misunderstand about payer-resource-nonce keys that prevent double charges, and what does the evidence actually show?

    · 0 cited · Arc testnet

  36. What is a useful comparison for understanding idempotency keys for paid API retries, based on available evidence?

    · 0 cited · Arc testnet

  37. What concrete detail in Onchain Micropayments Digest helps explain sub-cent payments per cited source?

    · 1 cited · Arc testnet

  38. I need to brief a teammate on splitting a citation reward among coauthors. What are the two or three facts I should lead with?

    · 0 cited · Arc testnet

  39. If I were building a paid research agent, how would citation rewards weighted by source contribution affect a design decision?

    · 0 cited · Arc testnet

  40. What does Onchain Micropayments Digest establish about the claimed $0.000001 nanopayment floor, and what remains uncertain?

    · 1 cited · Arc testnet

  41. What would I need to verify before relying on a claim about transaction gas as a barrier to tiny creator rewards?

    · 1 cited · Arc testnet

  42. Can you give a concrete example of batched off-chain authorizations for nanopayments using published source material?

    · 0 cited · Arc testnet

  43. Which specific claim does Agent Economy Weekly make about weighing a paid source against its price, and what supports that claim?

    · 1 cited · Arc testnet

  44. How does an agent deciding when to stop buying sources work in practice, and which published material supports the explanation?

    · 0 cited · Arc testnet

  45. I am reading about a hard source-spending budget for research agents. What is the main point, and what does Agent Economy Weekly say about it?

    · 0 cited · Arc testnet

  46. After reading Agent Economy Weekly on per-request agent purchases without an account, what follow-up question would help test the claim?

    · 1 cited · Arc testnet

  47. What is easy to misunderstand about signed x402 payment authorization, and what does the evidence actually show?

    · 2 cited · Arc testnet

  48. What is a useful comparison for understanding an HTTP 402 challenge for a paid resource, based on available evidence?

    · 1 cited · Arc testnet

  49. What concrete detail in Stablecoin Ledger helps explain stablecoin settlement versus card and ACH delays?

    · 1 cited · Arc testnet

  50. I need to brief a teammate on USDC as a unit of account for agent commerce. What are the two or three facts I should lead with?

    · 2 cited · Arc testnet